• Replies 22 replies
  • Subscribers 94 subscribers
  • Views 763 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

Do all autistic adults have either OCD or ADHD?

Lotus

It seems that a lot of autistic adults have OCD or ADHD - the OCD ones like everything to be clean and tidy, and the ADHD ones seem to have difficulty in organising stuff.

Do you have either of these? If so, how do they affect your day to day functioning?

I have OCD and I love a clean and tidy environment, and although I find bathing or showering a bit boring I feel better for doing it. I am highly organised with money, budget setting, paying bills, etc, and like recording things in a spreadsheet or making lists. I also do meal planning each week before doing my online shopping order. I cannot stand lateness either, but I'm not sure if that's an OCD thing?

Parents

  • Nearly every or maybe every autistic person I know also has ADHD, OCD or both. And I’ve had two psychologists suggest OCD to me but I haven’t been evaluated for it.

    But I think the tidiness with OCD is only if that is what compulsion they have. And even if they are organized that doesn’t equate OCD, it could easily just be repetitive behaviors in autism only. I was reading a book the other day about how to assess OCD in an autistic individual and one of the things it said was to determine if the RRBs are to remove anxiety of the obsession and somthing they wish they didn’t have to do (while in autism they might arrange things a certain way or have routines that they enjoy instead).

    OCD has plenty of “themes” like, contamination, harm, s3x and gender, relationship, magical thinking, etc. They’re intrusive thoughts. And the compulsions can literally be anything - washing hands, counting, skin picking, checking things, mental compulsions.. 

    Theres also Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder which people sometimes confuse the two. That one I believe is less about distressing thoughts and more about just wanting control of things. I don’t know enough about it to give examples

Reply

  • Nearly every or maybe every autistic person I know also has ADHD, OCD or both. And I’ve had two psychologists suggest OCD to me but I haven’t been evaluated for it.

    But I think the tidiness with OCD is only if that is what compulsion they have. And even if they are organized that doesn’t equate OCD, it could easily just be repetitive behaviors in autism only. I was reading a book the other day about how to assess OCD in an autistic individual and one of the things it said was to determine if the RRBs are to remove anxiety of the obsession and somthing they wish they didn’t have to do (while in autism they might arrange things a certain way or have routines that they enjoy instead).

    OCD has plenty of “themes” like, contamination, harm, s3x and gender, relationship, magical thinking, etc. They’re intrusive thoughts. And the compulsions can literally be anything - washing hands, counting, skin picking, checking things, mental compulsions.. 

    Theres also Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder which people sometimes confuse the two. That one I believe is less about distressing thoughts and more about just wanting control of things. I don’t know enough about it to give examples

Children
No Data